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Playing with Fire: Doing Fun Science at Home during School Closures (Activity #3)

March 23, 2020 8:00 AM

Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today's adventure... party trick meets science while exploring why perfectly balanced birthday candles act like a seesaw when lit. A hand holding a lit match to light candles that are part of a candle seesaw physics science activity. Playing with Fire is… Read more

Find Fun STEM Activities to Fit Science Needs

March 20, 2020 3:00 PM

Quickly find free science activities for use with students at home! Science Buddies has more than 200 free science activities for kids. These activities are short-term science and engineering explorations especially designed for use at home, in the classroom, or for programs at libraries, camps, or afterschool. Science Buddies' resources are always free, but during the current widespread school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the free library… Read more

Taking Flight: Doing Fun Science at Home during School Closures (Activity # 2)

March 20, 2020 6:00 AM

Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today’s adventure… kite building — a fun art and science combo for all ages. Things That Fly are Fun As soon as I started thinking about what do with my kids during our school closure, I knew that making things fly was going to be on the list. Kids,… Read more

30 Free Picks for Fun Kid Science

March 19, 2020 6:00 AM

These science activities are great choices for parents doing science at home with their kids during the pandemic and for teachers planning online learning activities. Free STEM Activities! With many kids at home due to COVID-19 school closures, we know parents are looking for engaging activities to do with kids and to… Read more

Dive Right In: Doing Fun Science at Home during School Closures (Activity #1)

March 18, 2020 6:00 AM

Follow along with a Science Buddies parent who is using family STEM activities to keep her kids learning at home during the COVID-19 school shutdown. New posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. First up... STEM fun with washable paint and good handwashing. Making the Best of the Situation at Hand I'm a scientist, a geneticist, in fact. But I'm also a parent, like many of you. I have two kids at home, ages 8 and 13. And since it was first announced… Read more

Simplified STEM Activities Help Fill Gap for Online, Remote, Hybrid Learning

March 16, 2020 10:00 AM

Science Buddies has more than 200 free science and engineering activities teachers can use in preparing for classroom, remote, hybrid, or pod learning. This activity with balloons is one of 200+ activities available at Science Buddies that can be used for classroom, remote, hybrid, and pod learning - or in afterschool and out-of-school programs Science Buddies has more than 200 free science activities that offer fun, easy-to-follow, informal STEM… Read more

Thinking Through the Shift to Online Learning for STEM

March 12, 2020 10:00 AM

Are you one of the many educators around the U.S. thinking about what it will take to successfully shift your classes to online distance learning in the event of school closures due to COVID-19? Science Buddies has suggestions and strategies for taking existing lessons and adapting them for remote learning. The World Health Organization (WHO) has now officially (March 11, 2020) labeled COVID-19 a pandemic, a designation that reflects, specifically, the… Read more

Explore Coding and Electronics with Raspberry Pi

March 4, 2020 6:00 AM

The Raspberry Pi Projects Kit offers a customizable set of activities for progressive learning. Students use Scratch to write computer programs and combine those programs with circuits and sensors for interactive fun. Above: Girls at a GirlSPARC event working on hands-on coding and electronics projects with Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Projects Kit from Science Buddies works with a series of eight interactive activities that combine computer… Read more

16 Women in Engineering to Learn More About

March 2, 2020 6:00 AM

March is Women's History Month! Learn more about women engineers and inventors in science history and get inspired by these 16 scientists! Women's History Month: 16 Engineers to learn more about! Update! Our Women's History post has been updated for 2021. The engineers from this page are now part of our larger Women in STEM! More than 60 Scientists and Engineers post. As part of Women's History Month, we put together the Women in STEM! More than… Read more

STEM is for Everyone: Ralph Braun, Engineer

February 18, 2020 6:00 AM

Improving mobility for himself and then people around the world became a life-long mission for this inventor and engineer. For Ralph Braun, diagnosed with muscular dystrophy1 as a child, mobility was a personal challenge that became the cornerstone of his career as an engineer. Braun's story reinforces the way engineers identify a need and then innovate and iterate to design, develop, test, and improve solutions. Sometimes the problem an engineer sets… Read more

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